Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]
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TABLE M.
Shewing the number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years 1886—95, and in the year 1896.
Disease. | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | Total Deaths in 1896. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths 1896. | Annual Average of ten years 1886—95. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years. | |
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Smallpox | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1.3 | 0.2 | |
Diphtheria (and Membranous Croup) | 61 | 106 | 103 | 155 | 74 | 78 | 127 | 172 | 138 | 103 | 140 | 27.5 | 111.7 | 20.9 | |
Scarlet Fever | 56 | 120 | 82 | 73 | 57 | 46 | 76 | 69 | 64 | 53 | 63 | 12.2 | 69.6 | 12.9 | |
Fever. | 'Typhus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .2 | .4 | 0.08 |
Typhoid or Enteric | 29 | 39 | 36 | 31 | 31 | 28 | 22 | 36 | 46 | 26 | 24 | 4.7 | 32.4 | 6.05 | |
Simple Continued | 6 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | .2 | 4.0 | 0.8 | |
Measles | 137 | 152 | 119 | 157 | 183 | 128 | 187 | 113 | 182 | 151 | 185 | 36.5 | 150.9 | 28.2 | |
Whooping Cough | 196 | 187 | 171 | 137 | 194 | 239 | 135 | 151 | 110 | 132 | 140 | 27.5 | 165.2 | 30.9 | |
Diarrhœa | 238 | 278 | 120 | 168 | 154 | 165 | 155 | 197 | 139 | 263 | 152 | 29.8 | 187.7 | 35.05 | |
Lambeth | 726 | 892 | 634 | 727 | 696 | 692 | 705 | 748 | 680 | 732 | 708 | 138.9 | 723.2 | 135.6 | |
London | 11121 | 12684 | 10503 | 9709 | 12270 | 9675 | 11983 | 13223 | 11544 | 11467 | 14009 | 171.4 | 11417.9 | 135.8 |
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